A bully, but a captivating one

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Any football writer who has worked the Manchester patch has an infinite supply
of tales about Sir Alex Ferguson threatening journalists, banning them and
swearing at them with language that would make Malcolm Tucker, the
foul-mouthed spin doctor from The Thick of It, blush.

To understand the extent of his control-freakery, consider that he once
refused to speak to the club’s in-house channel — so tame that it was known
as Pravda TV — because a reporter dared to muse that the team might benefit
from a change of tactics.